Iceland-Faroes frontal zone

Air pressure; Air temperature; Electrical conductivity of the water column; Wind strength and direction; Vertical velocity of the water column (currents); Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents); Temperature of the water column

Meteorological packages; CTD; satellite positioning systems; current profilers

The data set resulted from a thermistor chain survey in support of the ERS-1 two year programme (1991/1992) to investigate the radar imaging of complex ocean frontal regions. Data collected included thermistor chain, navigation, surface meteorology, XBT, CTD and shipborne ADCP. Data were collected by the Applied Oceanography Section of the Sonar Performance Division at DRA, Portland. Thermistor chain, navigation and meteorology data are stored in the DRA archive system and have been processed to the DRA standard MIDAS user data file format. These data have been screened for format and data errors and corrected to produce a 'clean' data set. The XBT, CTD and ADCP data are also stored in the division archive.

Geddes, N.R. (1993) Measured Data Sets held by DRA Sonar Performance Division (1993)., Report DRA/US/USSF/TM93201/1.0

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